Senior, Data Analyst - Advanced Analytics, Transportation

Position Summary...

What You'Ll Do...

About the Role: Join our team to drive impactful process improvements across shipment bundling, cost optimization, and service enhancement. You’ll leverage your programming and analytical skills to identify, analyze, and implement solutions that improve business processes, working closely with operational partners and stakeholders.

Key Responsibilities:

• Identify, extract, and validate data from multiple sources to support business requirements and process optimization.
• Perform initial and ongoing data quality checks, ensuring data is fit for purpose and meets business needs.
• Apply data strategy principles, including data governance, accessibility, and scalability, to routine and complex business problems.
• Conduct exploratory data analysis using SQL, Python, and statistical techniques to uncover trends, outliers, and opportunities for improvement.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to understand business context, develop business cases, and translate requirements into actionable projects.
• Guide and mentor partners on data-driven decision making, process improvements, and feature enhancements.
• Lead root cause analysis and deep research on optimization processes, providing recommendations and supporting implementation.
• Manage data quality, user access, and compliance with company and regulatory policies.
• Demonstrate strong project management skills, stakeholder management, and a continuous improvement mindset.

What You’Ll Bring:

• Strong programming skills, especially in Python, and proficiency in SQL for data querying and analysis.
• Experience with data quality management, data governance, and business process optimization.
• Critical thinking, curiosity, and a problem-solving mindset.
• Ability to translate business needs into technical solutions and actionable insights.
• Excellent communication skills, with experience presenting to and influencing stakeholders.
• Experience in process improvement, project management, and working with operational partners.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Experience in supply chain, logistics, or shipment optimization.
• Familiarity with in-house business systems and process analysis.
• Demonstrated ability to drive feature enhancements and process improvements.

The above information has been designed to indicate the general nature and level of work performed in the role. It is not designed to contain or be interpreted as a comprehensive inventory of all duties, responsibilities and qualifications required of employees assigned to this job. The full Job Description can be made available as part of the hiring process.

At Walmart, we offer competitive pay as well as performance-based bonus awards and other great benefits for a happier mind, body, and wallet. Health benefits include medical, vision and dental coverage. Financial benefits include 401(k), stock purchase and company-paid life insurance. Paid time off benefits include PTO (including sick leave), parental leave, family care leave, bereavement, jury duty, and voting. Other benefits include short-term and long-term disability, company discounts, Military Leave Pay, adoption and surrogacy expense reimbursement, and more.

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You will also receive PTO and/or PPTO that can be used for vacation, sick leave, holidays, or other purposes. The amount you receive depends on your job classification and length of employment. It will meet or exceed the requirements of paid sick leave laws, where applicable.

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For information about PTO, see https://one.walmart.com/notices.

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Live Better U is a Walmart-paid education benefit program for full-time and part-time associates in Walmart and Sam's Club facilities. Programs range from high school completion to bachelor's degrees, including English Language Learning and short-form certificates. Tuition, books, and fees are completely paid for by Walmart.

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Eligibility requirements apply to some benefits and may depend on your job classification and length of employment. Benefits are subject to change and may be subject to a specific plan or program terms.

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For information about benefits and eligibility, see One.Walmart.

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The annual salary range for this position is $80,000.00-$155,000.00

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Additional compensation includes annual or quarterly performance bonuses.

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Additional compensation for certain positions may also include:

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- Stock

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Minimum Qualifications...

Outlined below are the required minimum qualifications for this position. If none are listed, there are no minimum qualifications.

Option 1: Bachelor's degree in Business, Engineering, Statistics, Economics, Analytics, Mathematics, Arts, Finance or related field and 2 years' experience in data analysis, data science, statistics, or related field. Option 2: Master's degree in Business, Engineering, Statistics, Economics, Analytics, Mathematics, Computer Science, Information Technology or related field. Option 3: 4 years' experience in data analysis, data science, statistics, or related field.

Preferred Qualifications...

Outlined below are the optional preferred qualifications for this position. If none are listed, there are no preferred qualifications.

Data science, data analysis, statistics, or related field, Master’s degree in Business, Computer Science, Engineering, Statistics, Economics, Analytics, Mathematics, Computer Science, Information Technology or related field, Related industry experience (for example, retail, merchandising, healthcare, eCommerce), Successful completion of assessments in data analysis and Business Intelligence tools and scripting languages (for example, SQL, Python, Spark, Scala, R, Power BI, or Tableau)

Primary Location...

311 North Walton Boulevard, Bentonville, AR 72716, United States of AmericaWalmart and its subsidiaries are committed to maintaining a drug-free workplace and has a no tolerance policy regarding the use of illegal drugs and alcohol on the job. This policy applies to all employees and aims to create a safe and productive work environment.